Create your own indispensable gadget by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: Pocket Eggplant Compacter

Create your own tabloid teaser by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: POPE BITES DWARF

Name a sure-fire country music band by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: Kentucky River Jihad.

Create a character even Tennessee Williams might have despised by selecting one name from each column, moving left to right. Any combination will sound like a Texas songwriter.

Example: Ronnie Bob Synapse

Start that book you’ve always wanted to write by creating an irresistible title. Simply select one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: Against Another Moon

Pinpoint your pain precisely by choosing one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: severely throbbing earlobes.

Exercise your most basic political right—name-calling—by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: “Our president (or mayor or senator) is an oafishly self-serving manipulator.”

You, too, can sound as authoritative as those guys on “Car Talk.” Create the name of a mystifying “mechanical problem” by selecting any one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: twisted piston flange

Create a ritzy new real-estate development by selecting one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: Golden Mill Heights

Spice up those ordinary recipes with some tasty verbal seasoning. Create a fancy name for your ho-hum recipe by selecting any one word from each column, moving left to right.

Example: Granny’s Cornflake Ecstasy.